My Monticello

How does Da'Naisha come to live at Monticello in the short story, My Monticello?

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Da’Naisha, her grandmother MaViolet, her white college boyfriend Knox, and several of their neighbors used a bus to escape a violent militia uprising in their neighborhood on First Street, implied to be motivated by white supremacist ideals. In the period leading up to the uprising, there had been storms, power failures, and demonstrations. The group on the bus of “mostly brown and Black people, sixteen of us in all.” The group ended up at Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson.

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